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“Group Exchange” questioned what collaboration could mean for the 22 artists selected for this national touring exhibition. Curated by Cecilia Heffer, and first exhibited at Tamworth Regional Art Gallery in 2014 (14 August– 18 OCTOBER 2014), the exhibition then toured to other venues within Australia over the following two years.

The 62nd Blake Prize. Exhibited at University of NSW Galleries, Paddington, Sydney. 18 October – 16 November, 2013.

Outdoor sculpture exhibition shown along the coastline between Bondi and Tamarama.

The Really Big Paper Show was first exhibited at Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, in 1994. Then toured to Tamworth Art Gallry, and Broken Hill Regional Gallery in 1995.

Woollahra Council Chambers
536 New South Head Road, Double Bay, NSW
A competitive exhibition of sculpture less than 80cm in dimension. 43 artists

10th – 25th October 2015
Woollahra Council Chambers
536 New South Head Road, Double Bay, NSW
A competitive exhibition of sculpture less than 80cm in dimension.

Me, the Road and I, (narratives of refugee passage and identity) curated by Virginia Settre, exhibited at Wollongong Art Gallery.
1 June to 1 September 2013.

short film about the exhibition, filmed by Ashley Frost

THE IMPROBABLE OBJECT
Anita Larkin -sculpture
23rd May – 16th June 2012
DEFIANCE GALLERY
47 Enmore Rd
Newtown,Sydney

LEAPING CHAIR
Anita Larkin – sculpture
Wollongong Art Gallery
30 September – 20 November 2011

Catalogue published.
Review by Gina Fairley in World Sculpture News 56. Winter 2012.

Collected objects are transformed into sculptures evoking a human narrative, revealing a strange beauty within the forgotten and discarded. The works play with the suggestion of physical movement or a practical function for the hitherto inanimate object.
Imagining life as the object, often subservient and abused, Larkin builds them anew into autonomous objects free to leap across the room, to play, to retaliate.

OBJECT INCOGNITO
Wollongong Art Gallery
23rd June – 29th July 2007

catalogue published.

This exhibition was the culmination of a one year residency at Wollongong Art Gallery focusing on a body of work exploring people’s relationships with collected objects. Larkin made fictional tools for unknown purposes, and developed sculptural narratives for found objects.

25 February – 21st March 2009
Defiance Gallery, 47 Enmore Rd, Newtown.
Solo show of sculptures using collected objects.

The 5th Beijing International Art Biennale
The National Art Museum of China, Beijing.
28th September – 22nd October 2012.

work exhibited: Apparatus for the Repatriation of Tears

Defiance Gallery has held The 6-inch miniature sculpture exhibition annually since 1995. The 2015 show celebrated 20 years of showing miniature sculpture with the only prerequisite being that all works are less than 6 inches in any dimension.

“What tomorrow brings”
exhibition curated by John Monteleone.
Wollongong Art Gallery
30th November 2012 – 17th February 2013

8 artists invited to explore repercussions, solutions and imaginings of the future in 100 years time.

David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award Finalists Exhibition SCA Galleries Sydney
2008

Anita Johnson Larkin combines salvaged objects with felt, beeswax, honey and lead in engaging artworks that offer themselves up as intimate poetry describing love, longing and loss. Chairs, ladders, crutches, hot-water bottles, violins and beds, can be seen to stretch, slump, climb, smell of cloves, wrap themselves in the warmth of felt or emit the sound of bees.

THE BREATH WITHIN

Sculpture and Collage by Anita Larkin

Defiance Gallery. 6 May-30th May 2015

catalogue published.
film also made by Caroline Baum and Ashley Frost:
https://vimeo.com/126853743

Larkin exhibits works that display an intentional and playful disruption of the familiar object and the everyday.

These strange and intriguing objects include objects usually associated with sports combined with objects of war. Amongst the sculptures is a truncated telephone rendered useless by insulating it with felt, a gun that becomes a sewing machine stitching a line into the wall of the gallery, the artist’s breath made visible, and a cricket ball growing a breast.

The title of this exhibition “The breath within” suggests that objects have an inner life, a breath, a potential for story and meaning.
“The breath within me” is also the title of one of the artworks in the show. The objects are cast from the hand and lips of the artists own body, with the glass having been hand-blown to the dimensions of her rib cage.